Tompkins Square Park Protest

I was recently down in the Alphabet City area and wandered through Tompkins Square Park. While there, I saw a protest in progress at the southern part of the park.

The protest seemed centered around a bunch of mailing boxes with slogans.

Forgive me, but I couldn’t figure it out.

Some of the slogans were about Washington Square Park (undergoing renovations and no longer the center of protest activity). Others were about “stop strangulation in higher education” and “power to the sheeple”.

I do know that there was another sort of “park protest” going on in Union Square (I’ll post on that separately), so there is a point to the protest. If I had to guess, the authorities (yeah, those guys) are starting to crack down on the protestors in Union Square just like they did in Washington Square Park. That’s sad, if only because there are a lot of New Yorkers who really, really, really need a place to do their rants.